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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 10:24 AM EST for Miami County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 10:24 AM EST (15:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 11:10 AM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Miami County, IN, Wabash County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 091525 SVRFWA INC103-169-091610- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1024 AM EST WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN INDIANA CENTRAL WABASH COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 1110 AM EST * AT 1024 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF DENVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... DENVER ROANN WABASH LAGRO SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NORTH OF PERU. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN 0NORTHERN INDIANA.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 2:39 AM EST, 7 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 2:39 AM EST, 7 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 239 AM EST WED AUG 9 2000 ...FORECAST PROBLEM IS EXTENT OF POSSIBLE SVR WX THIS AFTN AND EVENING... LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRES OVER GEORGIAN BAY WITH A QSTNRY FRONT EXTENDING W TO NERN IA THEN TO NWRN KS. MAIN CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY ALONG FRONT IN ERN IA. THIS IS ALSO IN RGN OF H8 LLVL JET AND CONVERGENCE. WE CURRENTLY LACK THE UPR DYNAMICS FARTHER E BUT THESE SHOULD BE MOVING E DURING NEXT 24 HRS. MODELS SEEMED TO INITIALIZE WELL AT 00Z. ETA/NGM/AVN ALL DEPICTED SFC LOW OVER LK HU AT 00Z. ALL THREE MODELS ARE ALSO CONSISTENT IN MOVING LOW TO SERN ONT NEXT 12 HRS THEN TO SRN QUE BY 00Z THU. THE MOVEMENT OF THIS LOW AND NWLY WINDS WILL DRAG COLD FRONT THRU KIWX FA BY 00Z THU. AVN IS SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN ETA/NGM BUT BELIEVE THIS SPEED IS REASONABLE. AT 00Z H7 WINDS W OF FRONT WERE 25-35 KTS WITH 50 KTS REPORTED AT MPX. H5 WINDS WERE 50-60 KTS. THIS SHOULD BE FAST ENOUGH WITH THE NWLY COMPONENT TO KEEP FRONT FROM STALLING OVER RGN. AIR MASS IS QUITE MOIST WITH PW VALUES OF 1.5 INCHES EXTENDING AS FAR N AS NRN LWR MI. SFC DP/S ARE IN UPR 60S TO LWR 70S ACROSS SRN GRT LKS RGN ATTM. NOT AS IMPRESSIVE PW/S AS A FEW DAYS AGO BUT ENOUGH TO GIVE US SOME GOOD RAIN WITH APPROACH OF COLD FROPA TODAY. CAPES APPROACH 2500 J/KG OVER CNTRL IL/IN BY 12Z TODAY AND GO ABOVE 3000 WITH FROPA BETWEEN 18Z AND 00Z. LI/S ALSO IMPRESSIVE AT -6 TO -8. WITH COMBINATION OF FROPA AND AFTN HTNG HIGHEST INSTABILITIES SHOULD BE SEEN IN SERN ZNS OF KIWX FA. THIS AREA IS IN MODERATE REGION FOR SVR TSTMS PER SPC OUTLOOK. SLIGHT CHC OF SVR RGN EXTENDS BACK TO SRN LK MI. WILL MENTION PSBLTY OF STRONG TSTMS IN NWRN ZNS FOR FIRST PD AND FOR SERN ZNS IN FIRST AND SECOND PDS. ATMOS SHOULD STABILIZE QUICKLY BEHIND FRONT WITH COOLER CONDITIONS STARTING THURS. DRY SEASONABLE WX WILL THEN CONTINUE INTO MON. MISFWA A`VAILABLE. THANKS FOR COORD...CLE. .IWX...NONE. OHARA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:58 AM EST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-091630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 558 AM EST WED AUG 9 2000 ...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO TODAY INTO THIS EVENING... A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM GREEN BAY TO NORTHERN MISSOURI WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO THIS EVENING. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIR MASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL PROVIDE THE ENERGY FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WHICH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES TODAY WILL ALLOW SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS TO POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED ALL OF NORTHERN INDIANA... SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER TODAY AND TONIGHT. PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM TOLEDO TO VAN WERT IS IN A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER. AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON THE ATMOSPHERE BEHIND IT SHOULD RAPIDLY STABILIZE. THUS...THE GREATEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SEVERE WEATHER COULD LINGER IN NORTHWEST OHIO INTO EARLY EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL 9SEVERE WEATHER EVENT. OHARA
Local storm report, Aug 9, 7:20 AM EST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
720 AM EST WED AUG 09 2000
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 AM MONTICELLO IN WIND DAMAGE
08/09/00 WHITE NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
POWER LINES DOWN.
REPORTED BY EMERGENC%Y
MANAGEMENT.
NSpecial weather statement, Aug 9, 7:45 AM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
INZ020-091300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 745 AM EST WED AUG 9 2000 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR WHITE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS GREATLY DIMINISHED.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 9:12 AM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
INZ022>025-032>034-091630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 912 AM EST WED AUG 9 2000 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 664 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR CASS...MIAMI...WABASH...HUNTINGTON...GRANT...BLACKFORD AND JAY COUNTIES IN INDIANA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AS ENDED FOR NOW...BUT THERE REMAINS A CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM DEFIANCE OHIO TO MUNCIE INDIANA. GLL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 8:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 9:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Pulaski | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 10:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wells | 51 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.